How sapiens made history

Tue Mar 03 2026 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm UTC+00:00

UCL Anthropology | London

Camilla Power
Publisher/HostCamilla Power
How sapiens made history
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Leading neuroscientist Cedric Boeckx looks into the subtle cognitive differences between human lineages: ourselves, Neanderthals, Denisovans
About this Event

We have learned so much over the past decade about the many ways in which there was no Great Leap Forward or sudden ‘big bang’ mutation that made us human. We have also learned how other hominins behaved in ways once thought to make sapiens unique. But from a cognitive point of view, evidence currently available suggests that subtle differences may exist among late hominins. Cedric Boeckx will be reviewing these, and ask which differences may have made a difference.

Cedric Boeckx is Research Professor at the Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies (ICREA), a member of the Universitat de Barcelona Institute of Neuroscience and Institute of Complex Systems (UBICS), as well as a member of the section of General Linguistics at the Universitat de Barcelona. His current research focuses on developing new ways to shed light on the neurobiological foundations of the human language faculty. His projects are all intended to facilitate integration among disciplines (linguistics, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, genetics, archaeology)

Cedric will be speaking
LIVE in Daryll Forde Room, 230, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak

Invite linkhttps://ucl.zoom.us/j/95285541412?pwd=LjI5yIagplvPmFXVwSnLbDbV1xUiep.1

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UCL Anthropology, 14 Taviton Street, London, United Kingdom

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